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AT&T continuing to show they are a horrible carrier. I am actually shocked Verizon hasn't realized that if they lowered their prices they would gain a huge chunk of AT&T users.
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Way to turn a completely unrelated article about a carrier feature into a chance to show your displeasure with the election results.
I think they very much are related. It doesn't matter who is president at all it's that the house, senate and president elect are all right wing anti web neutrality. That is totally part of the conversation. It's not a carrier feature, IMHO it's a scam by providers to save you data when in actuality it's to avoid upgrading the network because it can't cope with the heavy demands of video streaming HD content.
 
Instead of giving a more powerful signal with all the money they take from us, they are still looking for ways to give us worse services... incredible!
Not only that, they want to acquire Time Warner for $85 billion, but they're too poor to upgrade their infrastructure.
 
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T-Mobile - Poor coverage, only one plan option that is highly limited unlimited

Coverage is subjective based off of where you a live. If you give me a ZIP or what county/state you live in, I can tell you if 700 MHz is active or not.

They offer plans other than T-Mobile ONE, they just don't advertise it. You can still get the classic 2, 6, and 10 GB Simple Choice plans.
 
There is already a data saver option in the Netflix app, and you can choose to have a video play in 480p in YouTube as well. What we need are better data plans.
 
Funny how we are going back in time from big honking TVs with HD resolution to tiny mobile sized screens and SD/DVD resultions. (But I guess that blends well with the modern cave writing-esque emoji language that is developing).

Seriously though this should be an opt-in, not opt-out, for the customer. The customer is responsible for his or her data use so they should get to decide if they want this on or off by default. Those of us here or on other tech-minded sites will know how to opt out. I'm guessing most customers will not and that is what ATT is hoping for.

For all those saying they are going to stick with xyz carrier and knocking ATT, don't think this isn't coming to your carrier soon. If you haven't noticed they all copycat each other in some for or another.
 
My guess is they are wanting to avoid the FCC. The FCC has been hassling T-mobile over net neutrality issues with binge on. One of the reasons is they make it so partner video doesn't count against your plan, but if the company doesn't partner with them they still count it against your plan. The way AT&T is doing it all videos are being treated the same as long as it is technologically possible for them.
Yeah the FCC should be dismantled! All they need to do is ask any T-MO customer if they like binge on.
Hells Yes! Its great! I use Amazon and Youtube continuously and it doesn't count against my data then
if I want to tether my phone to my laptop I can use my data.
I've been on US Cellular, ATT, and now T-MO. I use about 40-100 gigs of Data on my phone a month and I pay $77 month, all the others would be over $100 a month.
This isn't about net neutrality or anything other than it's a great deal and makes T-mo a much better deal than the rest of the carrier mob.
 
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It may be an option now, but if enough people opt in it will become the norm, and then require more money to upgrade to what was the old norm. When was the last time one of these services actually did something with other than their profit margin in mind.
 
I switched to T-Mobile from AT&T and almost cut my monthly bill in half while getting unlimited everything. The only negative thing has been that T-Mobile's network isn't as good as AT&T's, but I can live with that knowing I'm getting unlimited data and pocketing at least $1,000/year from what I was paying before.
 
I switched to T-Mobile from AT&T and almost cut my monthly bill in half while getting unlimited everything. The only negative thing has been that T-Mobile's network isn't as good as AT&T's, but I can live with that knowing I'm getting unlimited data and pocketing at least $1,000/year from what I was paying before.
Exactly! Its the best deal going right now..Yeah the service is spotty up here in the sticks but in the places that I want to stream video, it saves me a pile of money! Sure in the future they may charge more etc..but right now
T-mobile is the best deal but a long shot!
 
Coverage is subjective based off of where you a live. If you give me a ZIP or what county/state you live in, I can tell you if 700 MHz is active or not.

They offer plans other than T-Mobile ONE, they just don't advertise it. You can still get the classic 2, 6, and 10 GB Simple Choice plans.

Where do you check whether 700 MHz is active or not?
 
We've moved on from their horrible cellular plan, but AT&T literally dominates the entirety of Cleveland. Can't get Cable without them, although we're thinking of cutting the wire.
Dominating Cleveland?! Hardly. Everyone I know around Cleveland has Verizon for cellular (quite literally everyone except one coworker) and Time Warner for TV, Internet, and home phone. There are a few areas with Cox (Lakewood) or Armstrong (out near Medina). But other than formally being the CLEC, AT&T's presence in Cleveland is largely irrelevant in the shadows of Verizon and TWC/Spectrum.
 
It's ironic they do this 10 days after I ditched AT&T (after 5yrs) and moved all 4 lines to T-Mobile ONE.

$140 was the price point I was waiting for to switch, which was how much I was paying with AT&T with a discount. Great deal for travelers and especially those in the airline industry, myself included.
 
It's ironic they do this 10 days after I ditched AT&T (after 5yrs) and moved all 4 lines to T-Mobile ONE.

$140 was the price point I was waiting for to switch, which was how much I was paying with AT&T with a discount. Great deal for travelers and especially those in the airline industry, myself included.
Att will let you come back and get your same plan back that you had...even if it was a geandfathered plan. Call retentions......i think you have maybe 30 days to switch back.
 
So in other words, it's T-Mobile's Binge On in terms of how it benefits the carrier (it manages network traffic), but there are no apps that don't count toward your data usage- so it doesn't have the feature that benefits the customer most.

I know it's all marketing and hyperbole, but boy, stuff like this just proves John Legere right. Verizon and AT&T do not care about their customers at all.
 
There are several apps that track your data use in real time. DataMan, My Data Manager are a couple.

I meant having something in the status bar. Like, if right next to the battery usage, I'd love if it looked at the amount of data I'd used in the past minute to report how much data I'm using per hour.

So I could see that streaming an hour of video would burn 1 GB or however much (data per second is an obnoxious metric. I don't care how many kb I'm using - I don't buy data by the kb. Give it to me in terms of MB and GB - the amounts that I actually buy it by.)
 
Where do you check whether 700 MHz is active or not?

If you're in Boston, it's active.

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-...eater-boston-area-with-extended-range-lte.htm

But to answer your question, you can check spectrum here: http://maps.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700-mhz-spectrum.html

You can check out T-Mobile's coverage without committing. Go to your local Best Buy, buy a SIM card for $4.99, and pop it into your iPhone. You can check coverage and run Speedtest.net, even on an unactivated SIM (they whitelist it).
 
If you're in Boston, it's active.

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-...eater-boston-area-with-extended-range-lte.htm

But to answer your question, you can check spectrum here: http://maps.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700-mhz-spectrum.html

You can check out T-Mobile's coverage without committing. Go to your local Best Buy, buy a SIM card for $4.99, and pop it into your iPhone. You can check coverage and run Speedtest.net, even on an unactivated SIM (they whitelist it).

Thanks. I think I'll do that later this fall or winter.
 
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